Education Attainment in Public Administration Around the World: Evidence from a New Dataset
IMF Working Papers, September 21, 2012
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Bibliographic details
- Authors: Rabah Arezki, Herbert Lui, Marc G Quintyn, Frederik G Toscani
- Published: September 21, 2012
- Series: IMF Working Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475510669.001
Dataset description
- Coverage: 1981-2011 for 178 countries.
- Source of data: information extracted from CVs for over 130,000 mid to senior level officials from mainly central banks and ministries of economy and finance.
- Purpose: to construct measures of education attainment in public administrations and to analyze cross-regional patterns, quality-adjusted measures, and applications linking education attainment to public sector outcomes.
Main findings
- Non quality-adjusted measure:
- There is little heterogeneity across regions when considering a non quality-adjusted measure of education attainment in public administrations.
- Quality-adjusted measure:
- Adjusting the measure for quality, using a country wide academic ranking, reveals important cross-regional heterogeneity differing from that of standard measures of education attainment for the general population.
- Patterns by demographics and seniority:
- The dataset uncovers important patterns in public administrations' education attainment along gender and seniority across regions.
Applications and empirical evidence
- Salary incentives:
- The dataset provides some evidence of the importance of salary incentives in attracting highly educated staff.
- Association with government effectiveness:
- The dataset provides some evidence of a positive association between education attainment in public administrations and government effectiveness, with specific outcomes including:
- higher tax revenue mobilization,
- limiting corruption,
- better public finance management,
- private market support.
Publication metadata (selected statistics from source)
- Pages: 41
- Volume: 2012
- Issue: 231
- Series: Working Paper No. 2012/231
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475510669.001
- ISBN: 9781475510669
- ISSN: 1018-5941
- Authors: Rabah Arezki, Herbert Lui, Marc G Quintyn, Frederik G Toscani
- Publication date: September 21, 2012
Source: IMF Working Paper "Education Attainment in Public Administration Around the World: Evidence from a New Dataset", Working Paper No. 2012/231.
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